8:50 PM GMT It seems there’s little room for brotherly love in the cut and thrust world of competitive cricket. Certainly it seemed that way in Barbados on Monday when Dwayne and Kemar Smith found themselves on opposite sides in a club game at Eden Lodge on the outskirts of Bridgetown. Dwayne, the former West
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11:23 AM GMT Gazi Group Chattogram continued their early dominance of the Bangabandhu T20 Cup, clinching their third consecutive win. This time they beat Fortune Barishal by 10 runs, a slightly tighter contest than their two big wins previously over Beximco Dhaka and Gemcon Khulna. Chattogram’s left-arm duo of Mustafizur Rahman and Shoriful Islam strangled
2:24 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Devon Conway will have a further chance to push his Test claims after being named in the New Zealand A squads to face West Indies A and Pakistan over the next couple of weeks. Glenn Phillips, who hit a thrilling maiden T20I hundred in the second match against West Indies,
6:40 PM GMT Eoin Morgan credited England’s experience of holding their nerve in close games as a key factor behind their four-wicket win in Paarl. For the second game in succession, England clinched a last-over victory after South Africa had appeared to be in the stronger position deep into the run-chase. It gives them an
Nov 28, 2020 Big picture Their bowling lacked bite, their much-heralded top three contributed 26 runs between them, and their captain was scathing about what he saw as a “pretty average” performance. And yet England still won the first T20I by five wickets with four balls to spare – ominous signs for South Africa, as
6:33 PM IST Saurabh Somani Close Saurabh Somani is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo Big Picture The home team wins the first ODI of a three-match series, at Sydney. Both India and Australia have been here before, the last time they played a bilateral series in Australia in fact. On that occasion, India came from
12:17 AM IST Andrew Fidel Fernando Colombo Kings 96 for 1 (Russell 65*) beat Galle Gladiators 62 for 2 by 34 runs How the game played out With this innings, Andre Russell basically crash-landed at the LPL like an alien from a way bigger-hitting planet than earth, clobbering what seemed like nine dozen sixes (apparently
4:36 PM IST Sydney Thunder 3 for 87 beat Melbourne Stars 9 for 86 (Johnson 2-11, Ismail 2-12) by seven wickets A searing opening spell from Shabnim Ismail and menacing seam by Sammy-Jo Johnson set up the Sydney Thunder for title glory in overwhelming fashion against the tournament pace-setters Melbourne Stars who crumbled for the
9:23 PM GMT Jonny Bairstow insists he doesn’t mind where he bats for England, as long as he has a role in the team. Bairstow hit an unbeaten 86 from 48 balls – his highest score in T20I cricket – to carry England to a narrow victory with four balls of the game remaining in
12:15 AM IST Andrew Fidel Fernando Jaffna Stallions 176 for 2 (Fernando 92*) beat Galle Gladiators 175 for 8 (Afridi 58, Olivier 4-44) by eight wickets How the game played out Outside of Shahid Afridi‘s furious 23-ball 58, Jaffna Stallions were almost totally in control. They slowed Galle Gladiators down after the Gladiators got a